Cinematic Landscape And Emerging Identities In Contemporary Latin American Film

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Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film

Author : María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Argelia González Hurtado
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666934267

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Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film by María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Argelia González Hurtado Pdf

Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film offers a series of perspectives, produced from a diverse array of aesthetic and theoretical approaches, that build on previous studies about cinematic landscape and space while addressing it from a regional perspective. This book explores how contemporary Latin American filmmakers have included, created, or transformed different types of landscapes in their works. The chapters highlight the centrality of landscape as a meaningful space in film, composed in addition to the image, sound, and movement. The core of the edited collection revolves around films where landscape emerges as a crucial element to transmit the urgency of issues affecting diverse Latin American societies. The representation of emerging social actors, such as Indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, LGBTQIA+ communities, migrants, environmentalists, and women, offers a localized view of sociocultural, political, and environmental challenges from marginalized and dissenting voices.

The Film Edge

Author : Eduardo Angel Russo
Publisher : Teseo
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789871354719

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The Film Edge by Eduardo Angel Russo Pdf

What does it mean to make films in Latin America? The landscape today is as complex as it is dynamic. New directors and new projects are constantly emerging; film festivals appear one after another in what could only be described as an explosion of cinema in the region. And yet inherent to this panorama, both so vital and so difficult to define, there is a troubling sense of uncertainty. This book, which brings together the writing of directors, producers, scholars and critics, examines the current state of Latin American cinema. Exploring tendencies and possibilities for the future of the audiovisual arts within the context of recent changes in methods of production and circulation, the authors address a number of key issues, including the role of independent filmmaking in the market and in relation to alternative modes of production, the formation of new regional and global identities, means of support for filmmakers in Latin America, and the question of new formats, categories, and genres. The result is less a mosaic of fragments than it is a tapestry whose interwoven threads create complex and changing shapes that constitute the fabric itself. This tapestry allows us to glimpse, beyond their particularities, the points of contact between different parts of the region. This book is an abridged and revised edition of HACER CINE. Produccion Audiovisual en America Latina published in 2008 by Fundacion TyPA and Editorial Paidos. This new book, edited by Eduardo. A. Russo and translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary Wolfgang, was made possible by the support of the Rockefeller Foundation.

New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American Cinemas

Author : Dolores Tierney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN : 9781474431118

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New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American Cinemas by Dolores Tierney Pdf

Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan José Campanella), this book brings a new perspective to the films of Latin America's transnational auteurs.

Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author : Mariana Cunha,Antônio Márcio da Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319962085

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Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Mariana Cunha,Antônio Márcio da Silva Pdf

This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films. Through diverse interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, and analyses of different audiovisual media from fictional and documentary films to digitally-distributed activist films, the contributions discuss the theme of human rights in cinema in connection to various topics and concepts. Chapters in the volume explore the prison system, state violence, the Mexican dirty war, the Chilean dictatorship, debt, transnational finance, indigenous rights, social movement, urban occupation, the right to housing, intersectionality, LGBTT and women’s rights in the context of a number of Latin American countries. By so doing, it assesses the long overdue relation between cinema and human rights in the region, thus opening new avenues to aid the understanding of cinema’s role in social transformation.

Latin American Cinemas : Local Views and Transnational Connections

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1552385159

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Latin American Cinemas : Local Views and Transnational Connections by Anonim Pdf

During the past twenty years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. What this signals, more than thriving financial or production infrastructures, is a renovated cinematic vision connected more closely to everyday experience and social and cultural concerns. The films analyzed in this new collection reflect and examine contemporary lives in their diversity and singularity, through their focus on identity politics, sexuality, the body, the family, and/or community. Drawing especially on Jean-Luc Nancyʹs notion of inoperative community and Enrique Dussel's critique of modernity, the essays here weave together a progression that stresses the breakdown of the nation-state in Latin America and the search for new communal settings. The nation-state's breakdown is linked to modernity's homogenizing project and its concomitant hierarchies that, in seeking to impose order and progress, have alienated those who do not conform to conventional norms. In response, Nancy offers the concept of inoperative community, which questions current forms of operative' communities that do not allow for individuation, and implies instead the recognition of plurality and singularity and replacement of hierarchies by horizontal and transversal connections. -- Back cover.

Latin American Cinema

Author : Lisa Shaw,Stephanie Dennison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786484256

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Latin American Cinema by Lisa Shaw,Stephanie Dennison Pdf

Renewed interest in Latin American film industries has opened a host of paths of scholarly exploration. Productions from different countries reflect particular social attitudes, political climates and self-conceptions, and must be considered separately and as a whole. The search for national identity is a key component of Latin American films in a time of decreasing cultural diversity and pressures to westernize. Globalization and falling government support have fueled cross-border collaborations, calling into question the idea of a movie's "nationality," and leaving some nations' film industries on the brink of collapse. Whether thriving or barely surviving, struggling to remain distinct or embracing globalization on its own terms, addressing the government or society, Latin American cinema remains vibrant, offering a wealth of material to scholars of all stripes. These collected essays explore important elements of Latin American cinema and its associated national film industries. The first section of essays examines the impact of modernization on both Latin American screen images and the industry itself, offering modern and historical perspectives. The second section focuses on filmmakers who deal with issues of gender and sexuality, whether sexual transgression, the role of female characters, or societal attitudes towards sex and nudity. The final section of essays discusses the relationship between national identity and Latin American film industries: how movies are used to create a sense of self; Uruguay's ongoing identity crisis; and Brazil's use of Hollywood's stereotypical depiction of the country to depict itself. Photographs and an annotated bibliography accompany each essay, and an index supplements the text.

New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author : Geoffrey Maguire,Rachel Randall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319893815

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New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Geoffrey Maguire,Rachel Randall Pdf

This volume explores the recent ‘adolescent turn’ in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative and political potential of teenage protagonists in a range of recent films from the region, acknowledging the distinct emotional registers that are at play throughout adolescence and releasing teenage subjectivities from restrictive critical and theoretical emphases on theories of childhood. As the first academic study to examine the figure of the adolescent in contemporary Latin American film, New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema thus presents a timely and innovative analysis of issues of sexuality and gender, political and domestic violence and social class, and will be of significant interest to students and researchers in Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, World Cinema and Childhood Studies.

Latin American Women Filmmakers

Author : Deborah Martin,Deborah Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786731722

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Latin American Women Filmmakers by Deborah Martin,Deborah Shaw Pdf

Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films, enjoying global acclaim from critics and festival audiences alike. They undeniably mark a 'moment' for Latin American cinema.Bringing together distinguished scholars in the field - and prefaced by B. Ruby Rich - this is a much-needed account and analysis of the rise of female-led film in Latin America. Chapters detail the collaboration that characterises Latin American women's filmmaking - in many ways distinct from the largely 'Third Cinema' auteurism from the region - as well as the transnational production contexts, unique aesthetics and socio-political landscape of the key industry figures. Through close attention to the particular features of national film cultures, from women's documentary filmmaking in Chile to comedic critique in Brazil, and from US Latina screen culture to the burgeoning popularity of Peruvian film, this timely study demonstrates the remarkable possibilities for film in the region. This book will allow scholars and students of Latin American cinema and culture, as well as industry professionals, a deeper understanding of the emergence and impact of the filmmakers and their work, which has particular relevance for contemporary debates on feminism.

Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema

Author : Elizabeth Osborne,Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030332969

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Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema by Elizabeth Osborne,Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro Pdf

This volume explores the character of the domestic worker in twenty-first century Latin American cinema and analyzes how recent filmic representations of the housemaid question the marginalization of domestic servants, in particular women, by making them the center of their narratives, their families, and society. The essays in this book posit the female domestic worker as an emergent subjectivity, a complex character who problematizes and contests the hierarchical power structures within the family dynamics and new socioeconomic orders found in contemporary Latin America. Readers will find a variety of representations across the continent as well as transnational commonalities of the cinematic figure and role of the housemaid, including the negotiation of a multilayered politics of affection in the framework of prevalent paternalism, and the complex and contradictory dynamic between private and public spaces, where domestic paid labor occupies a central role in maintaining gender, class, and ethnic inequalities.

The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

Author : Nadia Lie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319451381

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The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity by Nadia Lie Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American cinema and society. Proposing the new category of “counter-road movie,” and paying special attention to the genre’s intricate relationship to modernity, Nadia Lie charts the variety of the road movie through films by both renowned and emerging filmmakers. The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity engages with ongoing debates on transnationalism and takes the reader along a wide range of topics, from exile to undocumented migration, from tourism to internally displaced people.

Cinema and Inter-American Relations

Author : Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136256981

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Cinema and Inter-American Relations by Adrián Pérez Melgosa Pdf

Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of inter-American narratives in films from across the continent, highlights the social effects of the technologies used to produce these works, and explores the connections of cinema to successive shifts in hemispheric policy. As a result, Cinema and Inter-American Relations reveals the existence of a continued cinematic conversation between Anglo and Latin America about a cluster of shared allegories representing the continent and its cultures. Pérez Melgosa contends that cinema has become a virtual contact zone of the Americas, mediating in a variety of hemispheric political debates about the articulation of Anglo, Latin American, and Latino identities. Cinema and Inter-American Relations brings sustained attention to ongoing calls for a transnational focus on the disciplines of film studies, American studies, and Latin American studies and engages with current theories of the transmission of affect to delineate a new cartography of how to understand the Americas in relation to cinema.

Remaking Brazil

Author : Tatiana Signorelli Heise
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780708325162

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Remaking Brazil by Tatiana Signorelli Heise Pdf

This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity. Focusing on the idea of the nation as an 'imagined community', the author discuss the various ways in which dominant ideas about brasilidade (Brazilian national consciousness) are dramatised, supported or attacked in contemporary fiction and documentary films.

Contemporary Cinema of Latin America

Author : Deborah Shaw
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015059984859

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Contemporary Cinema of Latin America by Deborah Shaw Pdf

This book focuses on a selection of internationally known Latin American films. The chapters are organized around national categories, grounding the readings not only in the context of social and political conditions, but also in those of each national film industry. It is a very useful text for students of the region's cultural output, as well as for students of film studies who wish to learn more about the innovative and often controversial films discussed. Contents: Introduction 1. Cuba: From Memories of Underdevelopment to Strawberry and Chocolate 2. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate and Amores Perros 3. Chile: Searching the Past for the Future in Amnesia and The Frontier 4. Argentina: The Voyage and I the Worst of All 5. Brazil: National Identity and the Family in Pixote and Central Station Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Latin America

Author : Isabel Maurer Queipo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1841506931

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Latin America by Isabel Maurer Queipo Pdf

This book is part of the 'Directory of World Cinema' series. It includes contributions from some of the leading academics and emerging young scholars in the field and features reviews of important recent films and film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more Latin American cinema. From the interior drama of Lucrecia Martel's 'The Headless Woman' to the frightful fantasy of Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth' and 'Hellboy' movies, Latin American cinema covers a vast landscape not only in terms of geography but also in terms of its genres and concerns. Opens with a section that spotlights key elements in the world of contemporary Latin American cinema, including film festivals, cross-cultural collaboration, and computer-generated animation.

The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Author : María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498553032

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The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez Pdf

The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema responds to the renewed interest in class within and outside academia by examining the aesthetics and politics of class in a representative selection of films from the contemporary cinemas of Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. It explores the relationship of cinematic practices to conflicting socio-political transformations taking place in these five countries such as the intensification of neoliberalism, the Turn-to-the-Left, and the growth of the middle classes in the period from 2003 to 2015. Utilizing a critical comparative method , it sheds a critical light on the presumed depoliticization (or new, aestheticized politicization) of contemporary Latin American cinema. The combined textual and industrial analyses of films from strikingly different cinemas and directors through the lenses of class allows for a contextualization of this trend and the observation of its limitations. Furthermore, this book distinguishes cinematic figurations that correspond to new conceptualizations of class introduced in social studies from figurations of class that have yet to be conceptualized.